Prologue

(Keep in mind that this story is rated M for a reason)

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If things were the way they used to be, I would be on a journey. Fighting the gyms and collecting badges while adding more members to my Pokémon team and one day challenge a league in hopes of one day becoming a Pokémon master…Sadly things aren't like that anymore, they haven't been like that for centuries.

Allow me to start from the beginning of the end of the human race.

Pokémon battling was always one of the most important things. Everyone wanted to be the best, but the problem with being the best was that you needed to train your Pokémon and took a lot of work and patience depending on what kind of Pokémon you had on your team, sometimes trainers just lack both when it comes to training and to be frankly honest battling was just not as much of a challenge as it used to be. Everyone was using the same Pokémon and strategies were far more predictable. Someone sought to change that through the use of something most trainers knew about; the Pokérus virus.

Well it's not a virus per say, considering how useful it was. For those of you that don't know what it is, Pokérus is a condition some Pokémon have that allows them to grow stronger quicker than the average Pokémon and also makes them a little more powerful making Pokémon that have this infection easier to train, but it's such a rare condition trainers rarely have a Pokémon infected with it, but like I said. Someone sought to change it.

It was a scientist who had a lab based in Unova that sought to bring a new challenge to the scene. That scientist, along with a few of his co-workers searched long and hard until they found a Pokémon who was infected with this virus, a female Electabuzz they named Telsa.

They examined the way she behaved and the way she fought to find out how she behaved with the infection compared to others of her species that didn't have the infection, and the differences they found were mind blowing. Telsa showed great power, but they felt that it shouldn't stop there. They took a sample of her blood in order to find the source of the Pokérus virus.

When they found and extracted it from Telsa's blood; they took its genetic code and altered it creating the New Pokérus. Not the most original name, but I digress. They recreated the infection so that not only would it increase their power, but also their intelligence as well.

Unfortunately they hit a small roadblock; the testing the scientists did on Telsa resulted in her unexpected death. None of them saw it coming, she died almost peacefully in her sleep, but not all hope was lost. When they discovered her dead body the morning after she died, they found her clutching something close to her. They weren't sure how it got there, but she was holding an egg.

After burying Telsa they incubated the egg until it hatched into an Elekid they named Surge. They soon discovered that he did not have the Pokérus virus, but they saw this as an opportunity to study a regular Pokémon from birth if they were exposed to the New Pokerus. They made the virus into an inhalant; something Surge would be able to breathe and not have to go through any painful infections.

As Surge grew up they put him through several simple tests to see if the New Pokérus, as an Elekid they gave him the average power tests they used on his mother, but after he evolved into an Electabuzz they began to introduce him to more intellectual tests. Surge's intelligence proved to be rather advanced, but whenever the scientists would turn their back. They didn't notice Surge watching them intently, making observations of his own.

It wasn't before long before Surge took matters into his own hands.

The scientists were watching a video of Surge against one of their fellow scientists in a game of chess – and surprisingly Surge was winning – when the image began to flicker. In fact everything around them seemed to be going haywire. Everything around seemed to go berserk before everything in the lab blacked out.

"What's going on?" it was completely dark and almost silent, save for the small sound of static electricity.

Following the sound the group of scientists walked down the halls to the main research room, which had a large observatory window to the room Surge was kept in. They saw that Surge in the center of the room. His eyes were closed and he looked like he was concentrating to the point that he could've been meditating. Electricity was flowing from all outlets in the room and into Surge giving him an aura of static electricity. Surge was absorbing the power in the building, but what was he doing with it?

The scientists weren't too eager to find out. They opened the door and walked inside, but when they approached him, Surge's eyes shot open and a blinding light filled the room along with a small literal shockwave that sent them reeling back several steps and temporarily blinding the scientists. When their vision returned they looked to where Surge should've been and were astonished. Standing in Surge's place was an Electivire; Surge had evolved without the use of an Electirizer.

Surge seemed to be as surprised and the scientists, as he seemed to be examining his new body. He did simple things like wiggle his fingers, feel the new muscles in his arms, flex and move around his new cord-like tails and other things like that. The scientists walked up to him, "Surge?" one of them asked with a small amount of uncertainly.

Surge looked up at the mention of his name, and he seemed to recognize the men and women in front of him, but then as fast as lighting he grabbed each one of them around the neck and hoisted them up into the air; one in each hand and two being chocked by his tails.

"Surge…w-what are you doing?" one of them asked struggling past the iron grip on their neck, "Put us down right now!"

Surge's eyes narrowed and a blue spark of lightning generated between the antennae on his head and he opened his mouth and a gravely sound began to resound in his throat, as if he was trying to say something, "Grrrrr-" it was a growl they couldn't understand, but then it formed into something they understood completely, "-rrrrnooo! No!" he said with a snarl in his tone. They were astonished, a Pokémon speaking English wasn't unheard of, but to actually see it was something incredible. But it was short lived as Surge released the electricity stored in his body into the scientists he was choking. Their agonizing screams echoed through the building, but they soon faded as the scientists died.

Once they were silent Surge dropped them, stepped over their bodies and out of his chamber and into the main research room. Looking around the room Surge could see everything perfectly even with it being dark. His gaze stopped on a computer console and he walked towards it. He stopped in front of it and one of his cord-like tails extended until it plugged into one of the power outlets in the wall. After a surge of electricity was sent through it caused the power to come back on and gave life to the technology in the room.

Surge looked at the computer screen then down at the keyboard before beginning to type. He had watched those scientists use it his entire life, he made a mental note of what he saw and memorized it. He found files and looked at them, a great deal of them telling about what they were working on in the lab. Some of those files had videos of various Pokémon battles and watching them almost sickened Surge.

"No," He grunted the anger quite clear in his voice, "No!" he said louder as he punched his fist clean through the computer screen and breaking the computer. He pulled his fist out, grabbed the console and ripped it out of the wall and held it above his head. "NO!" he shouted before throwing it and having it smash into a filing cabinet. Surge went over to the wreckage he had caused and one of the files inside the cabinet caught his attention. He took the file and read it; it was about the New Pokérus virus.

He had heard the scientists mention it a few times, but they never explained what it actually was. He read through the files and a plan began to hatch in him mind. He looked around the lab until he found the canisters they kept the New Pokérus. Then he got to work.

For weeks Surge was hard at work, using the machinery in the lab he made a device that would launch the New Pokérus into the atmosphere and have it spread all across Pokéarth. Allowing all Pokémon to breathe it and become advanced like he was. Once the device was complete he went to the top of the tallest building he could find and set up the device there.

Once it was ready he loaded up the New Pokérus into it and activated it. The New Pokérus spread rather quickly throughout the world and soon Pokémon and humans was breathing it in, and that was when everything went downhill for the human race.

The Pokémon infected by the New Pokérus began to question why they continued to take orders from their human trainers, they had more power not them, they began to release themselves from their pokeballs and rebel from their trainers, Pokémon in the PC were released by their Pokémon comrades and soon they were breathing in the New Pokérus and getting the same effects.

But what ended the human race was that while the New Pokérus gave Pokémon power and made them smarter, it was very deadly to humans. Humans all over the world died in a matter of days, it was one of the greatest epidemics in history. There were only a handful of humans that had survived the epidemic and they had to go into hiding due to fear of the Pokémon outbreak. Surge was seen as a hero and a bit of a liberator, to the point that he was considered royalty among them. He dismissed the title, but it never went away so he did his best to embrace it and he began to rule over them.

Years and years went on before they knew it; it had been centuries since the New Pokérus Epidemic and several things had changed. Surge's reign had ended, but his bloodline would be seen as rulers so his heir inherited the throne.

Pokémon had advanced so far that they had new forms. In fact, Pokémon weren't even called Pokémon anymore, they were now referred to as the Gijinka; a human-Pokémon hybrid. Surprisingly not all Pokémon had changed, those Pokémon were more like livestock such as Mareep, Miltank and other Pokémon like that. They were used for their natural resources such as food, milk and wool.

The humans that remained had become slaves to the Gijinka, most became servants and maids. The more tougher and/or stronger ones were put into the Games for the use of entertainment. While it was rare, some humans were forced to become prostitutes.

It's been going on so long that it's considered a part of everyday life; most have chosen to forget the times where humans used to be the alpha species and just accept their pathetic lives. The Gijinka are powerful beings that they had no power against them, so what could they do?

Well…we can't really do anything, but that doesn't stop someone like me from running. The slave life doesn't all that appeal to me and I don't have any plans on joining it.

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Hopefully I've caught for attention with this story, it's one I do believe has potential, and I would like all of you to be a part of it as well. Like the summary said this is a SYOC fanfic, so I'll give you guys the submission form, but first we need to go over some rules.

#1. It must be sent through PM, if I have any questions about your character I want to be able to contact you so please send it through a PM.

#2. The subject of your PM must be like this 'Planet of the Pokémons SYOC: (Character Name) (Age) (Gender)'

#3. Try to make them realistic, no Gary Stus and Mary Sues and remember this could be considered a post-apocalypse for the humans so think that over when you're creating them.

#4. I have the right to decline your character if he/she does not fit in with the story, but you can re-submit that character after making some changes to them and I'll see if I can reconsider. That does not mean you can submit more than one character, I want everyone to have a change at submitting an OC for this story.

#5. Leave a review on my story before you submit a character, I want to know what you guys think of the story itself before you submit a character. Your review won't affect whether or not your OC gets in, I just want you guys' opinion.

#6. Have fun with creating your character, but remember to go into detail.

Okay to prove that you read the rules, at the TOP AND BOTTOM of your PM write the phrase, "Omega 13-666". If you don't have that then I will immediately reject your OC.

Okay with that out of the way here is the form. It will also be on my profile so you can copy and paste it easier. Also be sure to remove the parenthesis. It will allow you to type more on your characters profile.

Name:

Age: (I would prefer to keep them within the range between 12-18)

Gender:

Physical Appearance: (Minimum of 5 sentences. Include height, build, eye color, hair color, hair length, skin tone etc. Remember this is a time where humans are treated as slaves so try not to make them look flawless)

Personality: (Minimum of 6 sentences, if you want your character brought to their full potential then I need to know everything I can about their character. Also humans are treated like slaves so remember that when creating their character)

Fears:

Habits/Hobbies: (What do they tend to do when left alone?)

Skills: (What makes them valuable as a slave?)

Backstory: (Minimum of 4 sentences, were they always a slave? If not what age were they made into one? What about their past made them who they are today?)

Opinion of the Gijinka:

Brand Location: (All slaves are given brands)

Romance: (There's no guarantee that they'll be given a romance, but it would be nice to know if they're open for one and the kind of person they would be interested in)

Other/Anything I Missed:

Okay that should cover it, okay guys you have the form so I encourage you to send in your OCs. I will no longer accept them once chapter two is posted, because that's when I will introduce them. Now I'm sure you know what to do so I'll leave you to it.

This is W. R. Winters signing off.